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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr & vb n.
{Bounding}.]
1. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of
extension of -- said of natural or of moral objects; to
lie along or form a boundary of to inclose; to
circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.
Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning
empire bounds. --Dryden.
2. To name the boundaries of as to bound France.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bounding \Bound"ing\, a.
Moving with a bound or bounds.
The bounding pulse, the languid limb. --Montgomery.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bounding
adj : running with a series of small leaps; "a hillside full of
bounding goats"
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